Name: JessicaSex: FemaleAge: 36Education: Bachelor's degree in Biology (Botany), hopefully in about a year I will as well have a Master´s degree in PlantecologyInterests: Besides various things linked to plants, ecology and conservation I as well enjoy play Tvgames, go out with my friends to a beer or two, Watch sports especially icehockey.

Been involved in a number of discussion forums over the years, so I'm planning to stick around here for a bit and test the waters. Not sure yet how active this group is at present?

My name is Chris; I'm male, age 54, living in Australia, currently training to be a nursing aid (aged care) which will be a new career for me. Going on placement in 2 weeks and be looking for work by December. Wish me luck!

Earlier career: academic, computer science. Became redundant in 2005 along with quite a few other info tech academics in Australia around that time; student numbers crashed and a number of faculties downsized in a big way.

I love science generally and have a particular affinity for physics. But I've also picked up a lot of biology interest in particular when I became involved in the now inactive website talk.origins, which was focused on explaining evolution for people troubled by the claims of creationists. Also did a bit of bioinformatics at various times as part of my academic work in computer science.